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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Isaac Asimov

Better to make a good future than predict a bad one.
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Bad Better Future Goodness Oneself Prediction
The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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Advancement Advice Cure Sleep
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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Capability Choice Option Refuge Violence
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
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Death Doctor Fast Live Myself Time
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
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Alone Enough Oneself Planning Success
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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Annoy Greatness People Thinking
Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.
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Pieces Science Security Yourself
So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You’d better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can’t rearrange the universe.
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Belief Better Quite Thinking Universe Yourself
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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Book Reading Value Worth
Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
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Argument Enlightenment Joke Kind Literature Philosophy Politics Question
Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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Feeling Happiness Yourself
Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women’s breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times?
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Attraction Interest Live Society Time Woman
While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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Dreams Himself Live Thinking
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny.’
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Discover Excitement Funny Science
The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own “national security” to be paramount above all other consideration.
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Different Earth Humanity Nation Security
There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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Feeling Goodness Natural

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